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Patented May 30, I899.

K. c. MEszARos. COUPLING FOB RAILWAY WAGONS, 8w.

(Appiication filed Dec. 18, 1898.)

(N0 Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

KANUT CHARLES MESZAROS, or MARIA-RADNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

COUPLING FOR RAlLWA Y-WAGONS, etc.

SPECIFICATION forming part a- Letters were No. 626,007, dated y so, 1899. Application filed December 13, 1898. Serial No. 699.174. No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, KANUT CHARLES MES- ZAROS, priest of the Franciscan order, of the town'of Maria-Radna, in the county of Arad, Kingdom of Hungary, Empire of Austria- Hungary, have invented new and usefullmprovements in Couplings for Railway-Wagons and other Vehicles Operated from the Side, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the same coupled. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same uncoupled. Fig. 3 is a top view of one side of the coupling. Fig. 4 is a section from so 00 in Fig. 3.

The coupling-pieces, each of which is similarly attached to the wagon end, consist of the coupling A A and the reserve coupling B B, the latter being worked simultaneously with the former. The coupling consists of a bar I) on either side provided with a loop 0 on the fore end, a coupling-hook a, and an axle d on the rear end, to which-axle two links orlevers e are movably attached. These two links or levers are rotatably attached to a bolt h, which is retained in the tractionhookf by two grooves or slots 9, formed, in the arms g'.. This bolt 71 has on either ex tremity a lever 2', which is rotatablyattached to a pin it, fixed in the framej. On the bolt it there is also movably attached, by means of a forkl on either side of the traction-hook, the bar I), which has the reserve coupling-hook a and also the loop C rotatably attached at m. The bars I) b are stopped by rollers 41 n in the framej, while the framej is fixed to the traction-hook by means of screws and a casing 0.

In order to loosen the coupling, as shown in Fig. 1, the coupling-hook a is freed from the loop 0 and the other coupling-piece A attached to it, while the loop 0 is freed from the coupling-hooko by means of a handwheel 19 at the side. This is effected in the following way: By the revolution of the hand.- wheel 19 an axle 0", controlled by a spring (1 and attached to the wagon end, is revolved. This axle 0' has two arms g affixed to it provided with grooves or slots 9, which inclose the bolt h. revolve the bolt h is freed and now slides Accordingly when the grooves g downward along the grooves and reaches the dotted position I. By this means the levers c and 11 revolve around (1 and 1.0, respectively, in the dotted position Fig. 1, whereupon the lovers 9 come to rest on aprojection s of the I bar I). Simultaneously the bar 11' of the reserve coupling, which is attached to the bolt h by means of the fork l, is raised as it slides over the roller '11 and revolves around it into the dotted position I, Fig. .1. If now the revolution of the hand-wheel is continued, the grooves reach position Fig. 2. The leverZ, by means of the projection s of the bar b,pushes thelatter somewhat forward, makes it revolve around the roller n, and thus raises it out of the loop 0 of the coupling-piece A, Fig. 2. The wagon can now be pushed away and the hand-wheel released, thereby bringing the coupling parts again into the original position.

The same process is gone through in coupling. The wagon is brought up, the handwheel is revolved to position Fig. 2, and the coupling is effected by releasing it.

Coupling may also be effected automatically, since when the ends of the coupling parts come together the loop 0 of the part A raises the coupling-hook A of the part A, a guiding-roller i being provided, which passes under a nose U of the coupling-hook a, raising this until it engages the loop C. Similarly the loop G of the reserve coupling, with its guiding-roller 15, passes along U" until it engages the coupling-hook.

Having now particularly described and as-- certaine'd the nature of my saidinvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is 1. A car-coupling comprising a tractionhook carried by the car and having a frame extension, a combined cou pling-hook and link having a sliding bearing on said frame, abolt adapted to removably engage said hook and hook carried by the car and having a frame extension, a combined coupling-hook and link having a sliding bearing on said frame, a bolt adapted to removably engage said hook and having a link connection with said frame, a link connection between said bolt and the rear end of the coupling-hook, a second combined coupling-hook and link also having a sliding bearing on said frame and havingits rear end pivotally connected to said bolt, a springpi'essed rock-shaft journaled beneath said frame and extending to the side of the car, and arms carried by said rock-shaft having slots engaging said bolt, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

KANUT CHARLES MESZAROS.

\Vitnesses:

AKIR PETRIK, Liizo BABIES. 

